{"id":801,"date":"2009-12-09T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T14:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/quiz-test-your-holiday-stress.html"},"modified":"2009-12-09T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T14:58:22","slug":"quiz-test-your-holiday-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/quiz-test-your-holiday-stress.html","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: Test Your Holiday Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/sadgingerbreadman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sadgingerbreadman.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/sadgingerbreadman-thumb-220x165-9984.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"165\" width=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/span>The holidays are a stressful time.&nbsp; Whoa, what a revelation, right?&nbsp; So if stress is a given in December, all that we can do is try to control how much we let the negative aspects of stress get inside our brains and bodies.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So ask yourself this:&nbsp; are you happily dashing through the snow this holiday season, or are you tempted to throttle the next Salvation Army Santa you see if he doesn&#8217;t stop ringing that infernal bell?<\/p>\n<p>To find out how you&#8217;re keeping it together amid the hustle and bustle, try our new quiz: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Health\/Quiz\/Holiday-Stress.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Your Holiday Stress Level?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample question to whet your whistle:<\/p>\n<p>1. You will be spending time with your family, and the prospect of<br \/>\ngathering all those different personalities under one roof makes you<br \/>\nfeel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hopeful. You know there will be at least one or two you&#8217;re happy to see.<\/li>\n<li>Dreadful. You&#8217;d rather be Macaulay Culkin in &#8220;Home Alone.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Nervous. Where there&#8217;s family, there&#8217;s a fiasco.<\/li>\n<li>Thrilled. Families and holidays are meant to go together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Health\/Quiz\/Holiday-Stress.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to take the whole holiday stress quiz!<br \/><\/a><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><strong>Like what you see? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=FreshLiving&amp;amp;loc=en_US\"><font color=\"#023d89\"><strong>Click here to subscribe<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong> and get Fresh Living in your in-box every day.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday Stress Quiz alert: Are you happily dashing through the snow this holiday season, or are you tempted to throttle the next Salvation Army Santa you see if he doesn&#8217;t stop ringing that infernal bell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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